prindle@NADC.UUCP.UUCP (02/10/87)
This practice can't be too new. The terminal on which I am now typing (a Direct Inc. model 800B VT132 clone) uses the same connectors and coiled cord to connect the keyboard to the terminal as a modular phone uses to connect it's handset to the base. The terminal is at least 4 or 5 years old. Never tried (and never will!) to connect the phone and the terminal together in any combination; one of the leads in the keyboard line is *power* for the keyboard! Frank Prindle Prindle@NADC.arpa